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ARCATA, Calif. _ The pot market is crashing in California’s legendary Emerald Triangle. The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many can’t sell.

ARCATA, Calif. — The pot market is crashing in California’s legendary Emerald Triangle. The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many can’t sell.

In their stepped-up battle against local marijuana dispensaries and growing operations that supply them, federal authorities are employing a powerful weapon — asset-forfeiture laws. The U.S. Attorney’s Office this week filed legal complaints for forfeiture against the property owners of two South Coast medical marijuana storefront dispensaries and one indoor farm.

Scoring medical marijuana might have gotten a whole lot easier thanks to a new vending machine. Aliso Viejo-based Dispense Labs, whose parent company is The Dispensary Group, recently unveiled “Autospense,” a medical marijuana dispensing system that resembles a vending machine. But will the machine affect local sales at Suite A, the only remaining medical marijuana dispensary left in south Orange County or give competition to local street dealers? “Will these medical marijuana vending machines soon start replacing medical dispensaries and drug dealers? I wouldn’t count them out just yet,” said Tom Backgram, a Laguna Niguel resident who knows so-called drug dealers.

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch .

Michael Montgomery/California Watch With its only retail outlet due to close today, Berkeley Patients Group is set to become the biggest casualty so far in a bold and controversial legal offensive by federal prosecutors against California’s pot industry. The group sent an e-mail to customers earlier today announcing the pending closure. While dozens of other medical marijuana dispensaries around the state have been forced to shut down since California’s four U.S.